----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob van der Poel" <bob@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Stephen Doonan" <stephen.doonan@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: "A list for linux audio users" <linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, October 11, 2008 12:41 PM Subject: Re: MIDI players > >> That's why I didn't mention Qtractor: because Bob wants as simple a >> program as possible and mentioned RoseGarden as overkill. >> >> However, my suggestion (timidity) won't suit his needs either perhaps, >> because there may be no way in timidity to send the MIDI data itself to >> an external tone-generator or synth instead of converting the MIDI data >> into WAV audio. Sorry, Bob. :-) >> > > > Yeah, timidity doesn't support "real" synths. Qtractor, I don't know > about ... but, probably overkill. > > Again, the kmid program would be just fine if it didn't distort to the > external synth. Anyone happen to have any ideas about why it might be > doing that? > > -- My Debian distribution, for the most part, works pretty well and MMA also is good. When playing a midi file, I use Hydrogen for drums, and one or more of the synthesizers : ZynAddSubbFx, Qsynth, and others. Specific midi connections are made using aconnectgui, and Rosegarden drives it all. This all works well for me. I can record the results using Audacity, and even play keyboard along with it using a UX15 Yamaha USB keyboard connector. It's not very simple, but I wouldn't go back. Actually I'm working on a wxpython script that should make it a lot easier to operate. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
